From Magna Carta to Mass Arrests: Britain’s Warning to America

Imagine facing arrest simply for posting sharp or critical comments online.  - Douglas Carswell 

• Picture the police at your door for expressing opposition to mass immigration. 
• Envision a country where you could be imprisoned for years without a jury ever deciding your guilt.

This isn't dystopian fiction – it's the reality unfolding in Britain today, my former home and once part of the free world.

• Earlier this year, parents Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine from Hertfordshire were arrested in front of their children over disparaging remarks made in a private parents' messaging group. 

They were among the estimated 10,000 people arrested in Britain this year for online posts – more than in communist China.

Of course, not all those arrested are sent to prison. 

• But plenty are. Lucy Connolly received a 31-month jail sentence after posting online, including a call for "mass deportation now."

Lucy Connolly and others have received "exemplary" sentences – in other words, instead of the British courts dispensing justice dispassionately, they have handed down arbitrary sentences designed to make an example of people, as one might expect in a third-world country...